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You'd Rather Run by Jaymay

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Chord diagramG+G
Run your fingers through your hair
       Chord diagramC majorC
Let's pick up from where we left off
 Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramC majorC
Call all your friends, announce the new victory
        Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramD MajorD
Once you were sweet to me, knock it off


Chord diagramC majorC
The music doesn't move you, doesn't soothe you
               Chord diagramG+G
Doesn't prove you're worth a dime
Chord diagramC majorC
You work 'round the clock, watch it tick and tock
    Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramD MajorD
But this isn't your time
Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramG+G
Move over son, it's my turn to shine

Was there ever a moment
          Chord diagramC majorC
One small slice in history
        Chord diagramG+G
When I took you seriously?

When your belt and your shoes
Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramG+G
Did not announce your poor taste so fearlessly?
           Chord diagramD MajorD
'Cause that's news to me


Chord diagramC majorC
And you can forget it, I get it
Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramC majorC
I just don't let it get to me
Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I regret to inform I do not fret or mourn
        Chord diagramG+G
The way things used to be
           Chord diagramC majorC
It's all in the past now, it's all gone


Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC
And the only way into the sun is walking
         Chord diagramG+G
But you'd rather run
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
You'd rather run away
Chord diagramG+G
The songs he writes are for "dad"
Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G
The true love lost 'fore he ever had
                 Chord diagramC majorC
If stories begun "If father loved son"
             Chord diagramG+G
We wouldn't be feelin' so bad
         Chord diagramD MajorD
But doesn't everyone?


Chord diagramC majorC
And it's not that I hate you
Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC
I never loved you enough to hate you
Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
To get even or mad so as not to seem sad
         Chord diagramG+G
Just seems ungrateful
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
'Cause I am thankful I'm sad


Maybe we're the same unabashed and unashamed
Chord diagramC majorC                 Chord diagramG+G
Then again, I dunno where you came from

You keep carvin' out names
Chord diagramC majorC
First Jamie then James
Chord diagramG+G
And I can't keep up to restrain you
  Chord diagramD MajorD
How come?


Chord diagramC majorC                   Chord diagramG+G
We two came together for worst and for better

It's true
Chord diagramC majorC
And the weather is clever
            Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramD MajorD
But she's not the only one getting over you
Chord diagramC majorC
It's me, too


Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC
And the only way into the sun is walking
         Chord diagramG+G
But you'd rather run
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
You'd rather run away


Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramC majorC
My god, it's no fun to watch you play dumb
              Chord diagramG+G
With your ugly hand on her thigh
Chord diagramC majorC                   Chord diagramG+G
And she's nervous too, but politeness eschews
Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramC majorC
The impulse to finger deny
Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramD MajorD
Plus, your girlfriend's a spy


Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramG+G
And what would she think to look up from her drink
       Chord diagramC majorC
And find you in your sad little vest tryin' hard to undress
Chord diagramG+G
The girls you sat down next to?
Chord diagramC majorC
She'll think nothing
           Chord diagramG+G
She'll be thinking of you


Chord diagramG+G
I'm glad I don't know the places you go
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
I'm glad for you and for them
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramC majorC
Let's be discreet if we are to meet on Ludlow ever again
       Chord diagramD MajorD
Don't mention Ben


Chord diagramC majorC                       Chord diagramG+G
It's funny what you miss, it's funny what you don't
Chord diagramC majorC                       Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC
I've thought it all through, the potential to fondly reminisce is this:

I won't


Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC
And the only way into the sun is walking
         Chord diagramG+G
But you'd rather run
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
You'd rather run away

Chord diagramG+G
Don't say we got along
         Chord diagramC majorC
That's remarkably wrong

It doesn't suggest or imply
Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramC majorC
The thing about us you don't dare discuss
          Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramD MajorD
We never got along famously, we just tried


Chord diagramC majorC                       Chord diagramG+G
I tried to be good, I tried to be gracious and kind
         Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramD MajorD
But working with you has done nothing but prove a total waste of time
 Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
'Cause the real curse is your mind


And sometimes at night I stare at the ceiling
  Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
And wonder what's wrong with me

To involve myself with people
          Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramD MajorD
Who don't know what my true feeling might possibly be


Chord diagramC majorC                        Chord diagramG+G
Who latch onto my strength like it's all they've got
Chord diagramC majorC
It takes all of my strengths
           Chord diagramG+G
And I go through such lengths
       Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC
To show them it is not what they think they are stealing


Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC
And the only way into the sun is walking
         Chord diagramG+G
But you'd rather run
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
You'd rather run away


Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC
Yes, the only way into the sun is walking
         Chord diagramG+G
But you'd rather run
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC

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